- If you've built a transition that you want to saveit's pretty straight forward to back that up.If you have a transition that you're happy with,you could simplify the sequence into just the effect.Let's go into the Project Panel here and duplicate this.And I'll rename this...OrangeIrisLowerRight.And I'll highlight that, and let's justcopy that so the name is handy.

Now, we've got a duplicate copy here.Open it up, and simply close everything else.Close other timeline panels.Now, I'm gonna work with just this transition.So I can delete away anything I don't need.So this isn't dependent upon media,I recommend you make some Color Mattes.We'll make one here that's red, and just call it Red.And another that's blue,and call it Blue.

Remember it's very easy now to select a clipand hold down the opt or alt key to swap out a replacement.There's the Blue, let's click the second clip here,and opt or alt drag the Red in.Looks great, I can delete away the audio by justalt dragging to highlight it, or opt drag and delete.So now, we have a sequence thatonly contains our transition, there it is.

Let's delete away some of that extra space.And we've got a simple sequence nowthat contains just our effect.Once you've got the sequence built,it's a good idea to store thisas it's own project, and this is quite easy.In Premiere, just highlight the sequence that you madethat contains just the effect and choose File,Export, Selection as Premiere Pro Project.I recommend you navigate to someplace that's easylike your Creative Cloud files folder.

And make a new folder called Transition Presets.Now, store that folder and just put that project in there.I'll call it OrangeIrisLowerRight.And when I save it, it becomes its own Premiere Pro Project.Let's close this and open that up.Now that that's created, I'll just openthat project up for a second so you see it.Let's go to our Creative Cloud Files folder.

There's my Transitions Presets,and that project, called OrangeIrisLowerRight.If I open that project up, you see it just containsa single transition, and that's pretty simple.Now, you could of course start to put more things in hereas you build, but it's pretty easy.Feel free to remove things from the projectif you don't think they're needed.We'll store the media away, there we go.

And Recovered Clips we don't need so I'll just delete that.You see we've got our simple transition from blue to red.All right, works well, little bit of clean up, and save.Now because that's stored in my Creative Cloud's folder,it's accessible from any of my machines that I work with,including if I'm using them offsite.If I'm working with a new project,or any project for that matter,and I need that transition, it's a piece of cake.

Let's just make something called NewProject.And now using the media browser it's easy to navigate.Remember, you can see all of your material.Now, your Creative Cloud folder is notin the media browser by default, you can find itif you navigate to your system, it gets a little tricky,Users, go into your User Folder, and there it is.But what I recommend is you go right tothat Transitions Presets folder, find it here in the list,and then right-click, and add that to your favorites.

At the top now you'll see a Favorites Categoryfor Transitions Presets: this makes iteasy to go right to that folder.If I need to, and I want to bring this in,with a double-click I'm looking insidethat project, and it browses.May take just a second to find itbut there it is, there's the sequence.I can double-click to load it in preview.And there's that transition that I want, that works.With a single right-click I could import thatinto my project, there it is, and you'll seethat it added it to the sequence.

And that sequence is now stored in my project.With a simple Copy and Paste I could reusethis effect, like you learned earlier.Now I would love to see an effects presetsfor transitions, just like we have normal effects presets.And it appears that that's startingto happen, under the hood.Maybe in the future this will go away.But earlier you learned about really complex effects,like layer transition stacks, as you usedmultiple effects, and built these up with key frames.The ability to spin off a sequenceinto it's own project, means thatyou can easily back that stuff up.

And if you clean it up a little bit by simplifying it down,swapping out media for things likesolid color mattes, this becomes much easier.Then, simply store that on a synced location,like your Creative Cloud folder.Then, whenever you go offsite, it's available.You switch rooms, it's available.Yes, it is a little bit cloojy.But it does work and hopefullywith these different strategies I've shared with you,you can at least get around some ofthe limitations Premiere Pro has,when it comes to creating Transition Presets.

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2/13/2015

Learn how to create better transitions by combining Premiere Pro's built-in transitions with filters and other effects, and then find out how to customize and save your results. In this installment of Premiere Pro Guru, Rich Harrington covers best practices for applying, refining, stacking, and saving transitions to produce more-creative, more-professional projects. This course focuses on how to master the existing Adobe Premiere Pro transitions as well as how to use top third-party solutions. Additionally, in-depth coverage is given to creating custom transitions such as blurs, flash frames, fades, gradient wipes, and more.

Topics include:

Applying transitions between clips

Positioning transitions in the Timeline

Customizing default transitions

Trimming shots

Combining effects and transitions

Creating a blur transition

Creating and applying custom gradients

Saving transition presets

Working with third-party transition plugins like Red Giant and CoreMelt